Auroral Currents Graphic (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Auroral Currents Graphic

Caption

The auroral currents are one kind of field-aligned current – wherein an electric current flows along Earth’s magnetic field lines. The auroral current carried charged particles (electrons and ions) from space into our atmosphere and back out to space.

Credit

NASA

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License

Public Domain

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